Tuesday, May 23, 2017

"The Library of Congress announced today that it is making 25 million
records in its online catalog available for free bulk download at loc.gov/cds/products/marcDist.php. This is the largest release of digital records in the Library’s history.
The records also will be easily accessible at data.gov, the open-government website hosted by the General Services Administration(GSA). Until now, these bibliographic records have only been available individually or through a paid subscription."

Thursday, May 18, 2017

"Published from October 1924 to August 1931, when Egyptian authorities acting on behalf of the British colonial administration cancelled its license, the “Ashoura” newspaper, which means “consultation” in Arabic, became the flagship of Eltaher’s national and intellectual activism, whence his office came to be called “Dar Ashoura”, or Ashoura House.
Two issues of “Ashoura” were published under a completely different name, possibly following a short ban on the newspaper. On March 26 and April 5, 1928 “Ashoura” appeared under the name “Al-Nas” (The people), with a license belonging to the Egyptian journalist Hussein Shafiq Al-Masri."

"The “Ashoura” newspaper license was suspended by the
Government of Egypt from August 1931 until January 1937. That same year
Dr. Mahmoud Azmi, offered his newspaper, “Al-Shabab”, i.e. Youth, to Eltaher free of charge “... so that he could resume publishing his nationalist views”. Eltaher published “Al-Shabab”
from February 1937 until April 1939 when its license was again
suspended by Egyptian authorities acting on behalf of the British
colonial administration."

"After “Al-Shabab” was suspended, the Egyptian journalist Abdelqader El-Toumi offered his newspaper, “Al-Alam Al-Masri”, i.e. The Egyptian Flag, to Eltaher free of charge so that he could resume publishing his nationalist views.
“Al-Alam Al-Masri” was published from April 1939
until August 1939, when Eltaher stopped publishing it on the eve of
World War II and the imposition of emergency measures in Egypt.
In 1953 the Government of Egypt under General Mohamed Naguib reinstated the publication license of “Ashoura”,
but the Ministry of the Interior, which was under Colonel Gamal
Abdel-Nasser, who was also Deputy Prime Minister, still prohibited
Eltaher from publishing it. He never published any newspaper after
that."

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

"The Center for Palestine Studies (CPS) at Columbia is proud to launch, in conjunction with the Institute for Palestine Studies in Ramallah, the archives of this forgotten gem over a century after its birth in Jerusalem. Established in 1908 by Jurji Habib Hanania (1864-1920), al-Quds became the first privately owned public daily newspaper in Palestine."

This volume offers the first critical edition of the Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on Book 2 of the Hippocratic Epidemics. It follows the edition of Galen's Commentary on Book 1 published previously in this series. The Arabic text is accompanied by an English translation and extensive indices. The introduction outlines the history of the Greek and Arabic text and discusses the authorship, dating, and style of the Arabic translation.

– Q 1, al-Fatiha
– Q 2:30-39, the angelic prostration before Adam
– Q 2:255, the “Throne Verse”
– Q 3:7, the muhkamat and mutashabihat
– Q 4:3, polygamy and monogamy
– Q 5:112-15, the table (al-ma’ida) from heaven
– Q 9:29, fighting the People of the Book and the jizya
– Q 12, the story of Joseph
– Q 24:45, the “Light Verse”
– Q 33:40, the “seal of the prophets”
– Q 53, the “satanic verses”
– Q 96, including the passage often described as the “first revelation”
– Q 97, the “night of qadr”
– Q 105, the “Companions of the Elephant”
– Q 112, on God and the denial of a divine son

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